Construction of jewelry.



No. 761,867. PATENTED JUNE 7 1904.

A. ARTOPOENS. CONSTRUCTION OF JEWELRY.

APPLIOATION FILED DEG. 29 1903.

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UNITED STATES Patented June 7, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT ARTOPOENS, OF PFQRZHEIM, GERMANY.

CONSTRUCTION OF JEWELRY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 761,867, dated June 7,1904. Application filed December 29, i903. Serial No. 186,962. (NomodeL)To all whom it may concern:

Be it known'that I, ALBERT ARToPonNs, manufacturer, a citizen of theGerman Empire, residing at Lindenstrasse 36, in the town of Pforzheim,in the Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in the Construction of Jewelry, entitled Bijouterie-Link forConstruction of Necklaces,Bracelets,Fretwork, and the Like, of which thefollowingis a specification.

The present invention relates to the construction of linked chains andfretwork in jewelry.

Hitherto for the secure fixing of connected links or parts lying closetogether in necklaces, bracelets, and the like a most wearisomemanipulation has been necessary. Such parts must singly have provisionof pins and eyes and slits, one fitting into the other to form neededmeans of junction. Then separate solderings must be made preliminary toa general soldering of the whole together in any certain desired design.Thus production is replete with difficulties, more especially withregard to the collets or sockets for the setting of precious stones inthe aforementioned articles of jewelry.

With the improved link constituting this invention after connection ofthe separate empty or open links a collet can be soldered on. Suchsoldering on of the same is here greatly facilitated by having saidcollets topped or sheathed previously with solder. Thus they are simplyplaced one alongside another on the connected links and may all at onetime be soldered on in. quantities.

In the eight figures of the accompanying sheet of drawings this newbijouterie-link is shown separately and also as forming parts in theconstruction of articles of jewelry com- 'posedof chains and fretwork.

Figures 1 to 5 display this new link in different stages of itsformation and from vari' ous aspects, with resulting shapes and means ofconnection. Fig. 6 gives an lllustration of the construction offretwork, network, and the like in articles of jewelry.

The first operation in the production of this new bijouterie-link is thepunching out, by means of special tools, from sheet metal of an oblongpreparatory plate having at each side small rectangular wings orshoulders of greater or lesser width. The wider of such shoulders areperforated by this same operation, receiving a circular aperturethereafter to be used as an eye a. The narrower unperforated shouldersare utilized to serve as pins or hooks 0 In related articles of jewelryneeding broader construction there may be such greater number providedand such varied arrangement of the foregoing hooks a and eyes a on eachlink as will best promote the manufacture of the intended article. Forexample, one link may have four eyes a and its complementary link fourhooks or pins (6, or, as with examples given in Fig. 8, each link mayhave two eyes and two hooks; but whatever number of eyes and hooks orpins may be required they are all stamped out with the preparatory plateby this first operation. The simplest form of the preparatory plate,having one eye and one hook only, is exhibited in Fig. 1. Then suchpreparatory plate is operated upon in a circular'mold or die preparedfor the purpose by means of asuitably-shaped stamp. Thereby the pan orcapsule a is pressed or plunged out of the central portion of saidplate, the sides a and a and the hook part a are simply raised, and theeye part a is brought up so as to lay out horizontally about onethickness of the sheet metal higher or above the floor of the pan. Thisaccomplished, the bijouterie-link is then ready for use. The collets b,Fig. 7 are constructed in a precisely analogous manner. Their outeredges are set firmly in knees at the outer width of the capsule a andthere soldered fast. g

The coupling or attachment together as elements in articles of jewelryof these bijouterie-links by their eyes and hooks is effected as moreparticularly displayed in Fig. 6.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent.-is

A bijouteriedink stamped in one piece out IOO of sheet metal, which linkhas integral hinge to this specification in the presence oitwosuhmembers a a for uniting link With link as scribing witnesses.forming elements in certain articles of ew- I r y 1 elry, and which linkhas also eollets Z) soldered ALBIL R1 A hl OI 014mb 5 thereto assettings for precious stones, :ill Vitnesses:

substantially as set forth. GUSTAV Soiiwmss,

In testimony whereof I have signed my name ELMA CiiAM immii N.

